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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?
(a) A carton a day.
(b) A pack a day.
(c) A pack a week.
(d) A carton a week.

2. What did Sarah Killingsworth believe the war offered to her and her family?
(a) Education.
(b) Training.
(c) Jobs that paid well.
(d) A path for acceptance in the white world.

3. Why did the girls in Panama avoid the officers from the battleship Arkansas?
(a) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers had gonorrhea.
(b) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were married.
(c) The enlisted sailors told the girls the officers were prisoners.
(d) The enlisted sailors took all the girls.

4. Why were the soldiers forbidden to keep diaries?
(a) Families should be protected from sad information.
(b) Diaries found by the enemy could give information.
(c) There would be no time to sit and write.
(d) They were instructed to forget the tragedies they saw.

5. How does Dellie Hahne believe military wives were regarded?
(a) Military wives were venerated.
(b) Military wives were overprotected.
(c) Military wives were looked down upon.
(d) Military wives were physically abused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes does Admiral Larocque believe WWII caused in American national consciousness?

2. What did Ted Allenby promise the homosexual soldiers in his chaplaincy?

3. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

4. Which city suffered the highest death toll from American bombing?

5. How does Mike Royko believe most U.S. soldiers felt about the Korean conflict?

(see the answer key)

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